North Dakota House passes bill to ensure physical polling places

BISMARCK — The North Dakota Home of Representatives on Monday handed a invoice to make sure bodily polling locations, just like laws that failed in 2021, introduced within the wake of North Dakota’s all-mail June 2020 election.

Home Invoice 1167, by Rep. Steve Vetter, R-Grand Forks, handed unanimously and now goes to the Senate.

The invoice states: “The governor might not concern an government order that suspends or amends a provision in a statute, order, or rule referring to a state or native requirement concerning minimal variety of bodily polling locations.”

Rep. Claire Cory, R-Grand Forks, stated the invoice ensures a bodily polling place in each county and would ban an all-mail election.

“This is a vital election integrity invoice for these constituents who wish to vote in particular person,” Cory advised the Home.

Gov. Doug Burgum in 2020 signed an government order waiving the requirement that counties present at the least one bodily polling web site for the June 2020 election, as a result of coronavirus pandemic.

The Home and Senate in 2021 had handed the earlier invoice, however the Senate reconsidered it and it failed by a single vote.

Home Invoice 1167 is amongst a flurry of election-related payments filed by supermajority North Dakota Republican lawmakers, persevering with a pattern from 2021. The Legislature that yr dealt with greater than 40 election-related payments within the wake of the 2020 presidential election and former President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud.